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Route 33 accident sends guard rail through car and out other side

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A woman suffered minor injuries this morning when she struck a guard rail on the shoulder of the Route 33 South on-ramp from Route 22 and the rail went through her car and out the other side, state police said.
(lehighvalleylive.com photo | SARAH CASSI)

A Whitehall Township woman suffered minor injuries this morning when she struck a guardrail on the shoulder of the Route 33 South on-ramp from Route 22 and the rail went through her car and out the other side, Pennsylvania State Police said.

The crash occurred at 9:09 a.m. in Bethlehem Township, Pa., when Sarah K. Pearse, 36, was traveling eastbound on Route 22, exiting to Route 33 southbound, said Trooper Nathan Branosky, of the state police at Belfast.

For an unknown reason, she lost control of a 2008 Nissan Sentra and struck the guardrail on the right shoulder of the ramp, he said.

The rail actually plowed through the passenger-side backdoor and came out the driver's side backdoor.

"I've never seen anything like it," Branosky said. "When she hit the guardrail, she actually was sliding."

A cocker spaniel inside the car suffered "severe injuries" and the parents of the woman took the dog to a local veterinarian, the trooper said.

Pearse had minor injuries and was transported to a Lehigh Valley Hospital facility. She is being cited in the crash, state police said.